| FURUNO Electric Company Limited Patent applications |
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| 20110319750 | NAVIGATION DATA SHARING SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT - A navigation system includes two or more navigation instruments connected with a network, and two or more sensors connected with the network and for detecting information to be used by the navigation instruments. The navigation instrument includes a switch control module for switching between a state in which the navigation instrument functions as a mother unit and as a child unit, a delivery module for transmitting through the network, when one of the navigation instruments functions as the mother unit, representative sensor selection related information to another navigation instrument that functions, the representative sensor selection related information being information about which sensor is to be used among the two or more sensors, and a representative sensor selecting module for selecting the sensor to be used based on the representative sensor selection related information received from the navigation instrument that functions as the mother unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20100289690 | RADAR DEVICE - A radar device is disclosed, which includes an antenna for transmitting an electromagnetic wave and receiving an echo signal from a target object while rotating in a horizontal plane, a display module for displaying the target object so as to correspond the echo signal to a position of the target object with respect to the antenna, a speed calculation module for calculating a relative velocity of the antenna and the target object, and a risk level detection module for detecting a risk level of the target object based on the relative velocity of the target object calculated by the speed calculation module. The speed calculation module calculates the relative velocity of the target object based on a change in phases of at least two of the echo signals received at a different time. The display module controls a display mode of the target object based on the risk level. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100283670 | GPS COMPOUND NAVIGATION DEVICE - To provide a GPS compound device having a configuration including a GPS receiver, that accurately determines abnormality in an output from the GPS receiver based on a difference between a GPS pseudorange measurement and a Doppler frequency measurement, when detecting the abnormality in the outputs from the GPS receiver, while avoiding continuation of the abnormality at the time of the abnormality determination resulting from estimation errors of the GPS pseudorange measurement and the Doppler frequency measurement. When the abnormality of the outputs from the GPS receiver are detected, an abnormal period is counted. When the count value is below a predetermined threshold, the outputs from the GPS receiver are treated as abnormal, and after it exceeded the threshold, the outputs from the GPS receiver are treated as normal. Thus, the abnormality of the outputs from the GPS receiver can be determined accurately. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283628 | Underwater detection device - An underwater detection device for detecting underwater by transmission and reception of an ultrasonic signal is provided. The device includes a transmission module for transmitting the ultrasonic signal underwater, a reception module for receiving an echo signal of the transmitted ultrasonic signal, a bottom detection module for detecting a bottom based on the echo signal from the bottom, a bottom-sediment determination module for calculating probabilities of the bottom sediment on how much the bottom sediment contains each of predetermined bottom sediment types based on the echo signal and a bottom-sediment display module for displaying a texture representing each of the bottom sediment types below the bottom being displayed based on the probabilities. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100225525 | RADAR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF DETECTING A TARGET OBJECT USING RADAR - This disclosure provides a radar device including a transmission module for sequentially transmitting two or more kinds of pulse signals having different pulse widths by a predetermined transmitting pattern, a memory module for storing a predetermined number of pulse reply data corresponding to each kind of the pulse signals, the predetermined number being number of transmissions of the kind of the pulse signals, a pulse integrating module for performing pulse integration of the pulse reply data stored in the memory module for each kind of the pulse signal, and an image generating module for generating a radar image using the results of the pulse integration. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100211315 | GPS COMPOSITE NAVIGATION APPARATUS - In a GPS composite navigation apparatus of a configuration having a GPS receiver, variation in an estimated position, an estimated velocity, and an estimated azimuth of a moving body when the moving body is not moving is resolved, and the GPS/INS integrated navigation system with good response characteristics from a stationary state to a moving state. A stationary detector for determining the stationary state of the moving body is provided, and when it is determined to be the stationary state by the stationary detector, a measurement model used for measurement-update of a Kalman filter is changed, while a changed amount of an error covariance matrix by the update is corrected. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100164827 | DIELECTRIC ANTENNA - This disclosure provides a dielectric antenna including an antenna element for radiating electromagnetic waves at a predetermined frequency in a predetermined direction, and a dielectric member arranged in the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves radiated from the antenna element. The dielectric member includes two or more dielectric layer portions each extending in a direction perpendicular to the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves. The two or more dielectric layer portions are arranged at predetermined intervals in the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100085263 | Slot array antenna - A slot array antenna is provided, which has a high gain and a high efficiency, is controllable of side lobes, and is adaptable to various polarized waves. The slot array antenna includes a radiation waveguide | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100026597 | Antenna - It is an object of the invention to provide an antenna with small side-lobe while narrowing the beam width to a desired one without the antenna increased in weight. Besides, it is also an object of the invention to decrease the manufacturing process less than ever before and reduce the cost. Furthermore, it is also an object of the invention to improve stability when the antenna is turned. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090201766 | UNDERWATER DETECTOR - The present disclosure provides an underwater detector including a power source for applying a predetermined voltage, a voltage control circuit for controlling the voltage based on a control signal, a gate signal generating module for outputting a gate signal, a switching circuit for outputting a reference signal based on the voltage controlled by the voltage control circuit and the gate signal outputted from the gate signal generating module, and a transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic signal underwater, an envelope of which being controlled based on a waveform of the control signal by being applied with the reference signal. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090122642 | Bottom-sediment classification device and method - A device and method for determining bottom sediment is provided. The method includes transmitting a pulse of a pulse width corresponding to a water-bottom depth, extracting a series of amplitude data of water-bottom echo signals from predetermined signals among the water-bottom echo signals received by the transducer at a predetermined time interval, normalizing the extracted series of amplitude data after TVG-processed, calculating two or more feature quantities based on the normalized series of amplitude data in each of segments of the normalized series of amplitude data, and a value corresponding to the water-bottom depth, and generating bottom-sediment classification information indicating the bottom sediment based on the two or more feature quantities. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090079590 | Device for Displaying Other Ship Targets - An apparatus for displaying other ship targets is provided that displays the positions and detailed information concerning substantially all vessels present in a predetermined region around the own ship in a manner that is easy to grasp for the operator. A display screen includes Graphical Position Display Area | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090058718 | Radar apparatus and the like - Methods and apparatuses process sensing signals. A method for redrawing a sensing image when a range is or has been changed, according to one aspect of the present invention, records the sensing image and outputs the sensing image to a display; records additional information displayed upon a screen and outputs the additional information to the display; computes a new image from the recorded sensing image using an image manipulation computer function, so that the computed image fits a new scale of the changed range, and recording the computed image; and computes changes to the recorded additional information to adjust the additional information to the new scale of the changed range, and records the computed additional information. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20080298526 | Code Controller - A code controller that configures a code state at a substantially constant and low storage volume, and furthermore at a substantially constant computational processing amount, regardless of which state position a desired code state is present in within the state area of the code states. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080247275 | Underwater detection apparatus - An underwater detection apparatus for detecting a target by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound signal is provided. The apparatus includes a replica memory module for storing the typical amplitude evolution of a seawall echo during a predetermined time period as a template-replica beforehand, a correlator module for determining a correlation between the amplitude evolution of an echo signal reflected from the target and the template-replica, a seawall detector module for detecting a seawall position based on the correlation, and a seawall display processor module for displaying the seawall on its position in an indicator. | 10-09-2008 |
